Windows Event Logging

Question

Can anyone explain what is Windows Event Logging?

Answer 1

When you send log messages to the Windows Event Logger. You can see the messages by going to the Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer.

Answer 2

Try this related stack overflow question.

Answer 3

Since this is homework I'm assuming you just want the basic idea of it. If your program encounters a serious error, you write it to the Windows event log so you can keep a record and look at it later to figure out what went wrong. Look it up on MSDN or Wikipedia

Answer 4

Windows Event Log is a component of Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems that lets administrators and users view the event logs on a local or remote machine. Windows Event Logging is the process of writing applications' events into that centrolized log storage.

Answer 5

I think everything you need to know would be here:

Event Logging (Windows)